The US, whose founders tried to emulate the laws and governmental structures of the Roman republic, is headed for a similarly self-inflicted collapse, director Francis
Category: Films
Bird review – Andrea Arnold’s untamed Barry Keoghan tale is a curate’s egg
Andrea Arnold’s flawed, garrulous new movie is a chaotic social-realist adventure with big, chancy performances, grimly violent episodes, tragedy butting heads with comedy and physical
An Unfinished Film review – moving and mysterious movie about China’s Covid crisis
Out of agony and chaos, Chinese film-maker Lou Ye has created something mysterious, moving and even profound – a kind of multilayered docu-realist film, evidently
Slow: the Lithuanian asexual romcom that raises ‘a lot of questions’
They meet cute in a dance rehearsal studio. She’s a contemporary dancer teaching a class of deaf teenagers. He’s the sign language interpreter. When he
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review – Rungano Nyoni’s strange, intense tale of sexual abuse
Rungano Nyoni is the Zambian-Welsh film-maker who in 2017 had an arthouse smash with her debut, the witty and distinctive misogyny fable I Am Not
‘To escape Gaza is already an achievement. And then to be trans?’: the women defying national and gender boundaries
The Belle from Gaza premieres at the Cannes film festival on Friday – an achievement made the more remarkable as there was a point last
The Girl With the Needle review – horrific drama based on Denmark’s 1921 baby-killer case
Just in case you were thinking that this is an upbeat story of a sweet young seamstress winning BBC TV’s The Great British Sewing Bee,
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – Anya Taylor-Joy is tremendous as chase resumes
‘My childhood! My mother! I want them back!” With this howl of anguish, young Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, sets the tone of vengeful rage
Two Tickets to Greece review – insufferable women-on-holiday comedy is no Shirley Valentine
Marc Fitoussi, whose directing credits include work on the French TV hit Call My Agent!, has created this excruciatingly sugary French comedy of female friendship
The Second Act review – Quentin Dupieux’s likable meta comedy of actors’ private lives
Cannes can always do worse than choose a comedy for its opening gala, and the festival is off to an amiable, entertaining start. Quentin Dupieux